OTTAWA CONFERENCE

Opunake Times, 26 August 1932, Page 2

OTTAWA CONFERENCE

MR De la PERRELLE’S VIEWS “WE MUST BUY TO SELL.” “Australia anticipated much greater results from the Ottawa Conference than have been realised,” said Mr. P. A. De La Perrelle, M.P., who has just returned from the Commonwealth. “My opinion is that we could not look for much greater preference than we got. England has her vast interests all over th© world to take care of. The preference on butter will mean about more per lb than last season and will mean a great lift to the industry in New Zealand. “The Australian manufacturers are particularly keen to develop secondary industries and export them to Britain. Wfiile it is our duty to encourage secondary industries I do not think we—that is, Australia and New Zealand—can go further than supply ourselves. We look to Britain to buy our primary produce and we cannot expect her to be an importer of our manufactures as well. To sell we must buy, and must therefore work on a basis of quid pro quo. We must buy her manufactures to aid her to employ the 3,000,000 who are out of work, and they in their turn will be enabled to buy our primary products.”